Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple
1 Kings 8:22–53
Before the altar, hands spread toward heaven, Shalamah asks that Yahawah's eyes be open toward the house night and day, and hear every prayer made toward this place.
22 Shalamah (Solomon) imad (stood) panayam (face) the mazabach (altar) of Yahawah () in the nagad (presence) of all the qahal (assembly) of Yashar-Al (Israel), and parash (spread) forth his kap (hands) toward shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens);
23 And he amar (spoke), “Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), there is no Alahayam () like you, in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) mail (top/above), or on aratz (Earth/land) beneath; who shamar (keep/guard) barayath (covenant) and loving chasad (grace) with your ibad (servant), who halak (move) panayam (face) you with all their lab (heart);
24 Who have shamar (keep/guard) with your ibad (servant) Dawad (David) my ab (father) that which you dabar (word / matter) him. Yes, you dabar (word / matter) with your pah (mouth), and malaa (have) fulfilled it with your yad (hand), as it is this yawam (day).
25 Now therefore, may Yahawah (), the Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), shamar (keep/guard) with your ibad (servant) Dawad (David) my ab (father) that which you have dabar (word / matter) him, amar (spoke), ‘There shall not karath (cut) you a ayash (man / husband) in my panayam (face) to yashab (inhabit/dwell) on the kasaa (throne) of Yashar-Al (Israel), if only your ban (son) shamar (keep/guard) heed to their darak (way), to yalak (walk) panayam (face) me as you have halak (move) panayam (face) me.’
26 “Now therefore, Alahayam () of Yashar-Al (Israel), please let your dabar (word / matter) be aman (believe / have faith), which you dabar (word / matter) to your ibad (servant) Dawad (David) my ab (father).
27 But will Alahayam () in very amanam (deed) yashab (inhabit/dwell) on the aratz (Earth/land)? Behold, shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) and the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) of shamay (heavens) can't kawal (all) you; ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting) much less this bayath (house) that I have banah (build)!
28 Yet have panah (turn) for the thapalah (prayer) of your ibad (servant), and for his thachanah (supplication), Yahawah () my Alahayam (), to shamai (hearken / hear) to the ranah (cry) and to the thapalah (prayer) which your ibad (servant) palal (prays) panayam (face) you this yawam (day);
29 That your iyan (eye) may be pathach (open) toward this bayath (house) layal (night) and yawam (day), even toward the maqawam (place) of which you have amar (said), ‘My sham (name) shall be there;’ to shamai (hearken / hear) to the thapalah (prayer) which your ibad (servant) shall palal (pray) toward this maqawam (place).
30 Shamai (hearken / hear) to the thachanah (supplication) of your ibad (servant), and of your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), when they shall palal (pray) toward this maqawam (place). Yes, shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), your yashab (inhabit/dwell) maqawam (place); and when you shamai (hearken / hear), salach (forgive/pardon/make clean).
31 “If a ayash (man / husband) chataa (sins) against his neighbor, and an alah (these) is laid on him to cause him to alah (these), and he bawaa (bring) and alah (these) panayam (face) your mazabach (altar) in this bayath (house);
32 Then shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), and ishah (make), and shapat (judge / judgement) your ibad (servant), rashai (condemning) the rashai (wicked), to nathan (give) his darak (way) on his own raash (head), and justifying the tzadayaq (righteous), to nathan (give) him according to his tzadaqah (righteousness).
33 “When your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel) are nagap (struck) down panayam (face) the ayab (enemy), because they have chataa (sinned) against you; if they shawab (turn) again to you, and yadah (confess) your sham (name), and palal (pray) and chanan (showing favor) supplication to you in this bayath (house):
34 Then shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), and salach (forgive/pardon/make clean) the chataah (sin) of your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), and shawab (turn) them again to the adamah (land) which you nathan (give) to their ab (father).
35 “When the sky is itzar (shut) up, and there is no matar (rain), because they have chataa (sinned) against you; if they palal (pray) toward this maqawam (place), and yadah (confess) your sham (name), and shawab (turn) from their chataah (sin), when you inah (answer / respond) them:
36 Then shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), and salach (forgive/pardon/make clean) the chataah (sin) of your ibad (servant), and of your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), when you yarah (teach) them the tawab (good / proper function) darak (way) in which they should yalak (walk); and nathan (give) matar (rain) on your aratz (Earth/land), which you nathan (give) given to your im (nation / people) for an nachalah (inheritance).
37 “If there is raib (famine) in the aratz (Earth/land), if there is dabar (word / matter), if there is blight, mildew, arabah (locust) or chasayal (caterpillar); if their ayab (enemy) besieges them in the aratz (Earth/land) of their shair (cities); whatever nagai (plague), whatever machalah (sickness) there is;
38 Whatever thapalah (prayer) and thachanah (supplication) is made by any adam (man), or by all your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), who shall ayash (man / husband) yadai (know) the nagai (plague) of his own labab (heart), and parash (spread) forth his kap (hands) toward this bayath (house):
39 Then shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), your yashab (inhabit/dwell) makawan (place), and salach (forgive/pardon/make clean), and ishah (make), and nathan (give) to every ayash (man / husband) according to all his darak (ways), whose labab (heart) you yadai (know); (for you, even you only, yadai (know) the labab (hearts) of all the banay (my son) of adam (men);)
40 That they may yaraa (fear / be afraid) you all the yamayam (days) that they chay (life) in the adamah (land) which you nathan (give) to our ab (father).
41 “Moreover concerning the nakaray (foreigner), who is not of your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), when he shall bawaa (bring) out of a rachawaq (far) aratz (Earth/land) for your sham (name) sake
42 (For they shall shamai (hearken / hear) of your gadawal (very great/important/mighty) sham (name), and of your chazaq (mighty) yad (hand), and of your natah (outstretched) zarawai (arm)); when he shall bawaa (bring) and palal (pray) toward this bayath (house);
43 Shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), your yashab (inhabit/dwell) makawan (place), and ishah (make) according to all that the nakaray (foreigner) qaraa (called) to you for; that all the imay (peoples) of the aratz (Earth/land) may yadai (know) your sham (name), to yaraa (fear / be afraid) you, as do your imay (people) Yashar-Al (Israel), and that they may yadai (know) that this bayath (house) which I have banah (build) is qaraa (called) by your sham (name).
44 “If your im (nation / people) yatzaa (go out / come out) out to malachamah (battle) against their ayab (enemy), by whatever way you shall shalach (send) them, and they palal (pray) to Yahawah () darak (toward) the iyar (city) which you have bachar (chosen), and toward the bayath (house) which I have banah (build) for your sham (name);
45 Then shamai (hearken / hear) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) their thapalah (prayer) and their thachanah (supplication), and ishah (make) their cause.
46 If they chataa (sin) against you (for there is no adam (man) who doesn't chataa (sin)), and you are anap (angry) with them, and nathan (give) them to the ayab (enemy), so that they shabah (carry) them away shabah (captive) to the aratz (Earth/land) of the ayab (enemy), rachawaq (far) off or qarawab (near);
47 Yet if they shall shawab (turn) in the aratz (Earth/land) where they are shabah (carried) captive, and shawab (turn) again, and chanan (showing favor) supplication to you in the aratz (Earth/land) of those who shabah (carried) them captive, amar (said), ‘We have chataa (sinned), and have iwah (done) perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’
48 If they shawab (turn) to you with all their labab (heart) and with all their napash (soul) in the aratz (Earth/land) of their ayab (enemy), who shabah (carried) them captive, and palal (pray) to you darak (toward) their aratz (Earth/land), which you nathan (give) to their ab (father), the iyar (city) which you have bachar (chosen), and the bayath (house) which I have banah (build) for your sham (name):
49 Then shamai (hearken / hear) their thapalah (prayer) and their thachanah (supplication) in shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), your yashab (inhabit/dwell) makawan (place), and ishah (make) their cause;
50 And salach (forgive/pardon/make clean) your im (nation / people) who have chataa (sinned) against you, and all their pashai (transgressions) in which they have pashai (transgressed) against you; and nathan (give) them racham (show mercy / love) panayam (face) those who shabah (carried) them captive, that they may racham (show mercy / love) compassion on them
51 (For they are your im (nation / people), and your nachalah (inheritance), which you yatzaa (go out / come out) out of Matzarayam (Matzarayam / Egypt), from the thawak (midst) of the kawar (furnace) of barazal (iron));
52 That your iyan (eye) may be pathach (open) to the thachanah (supplication) of your ibad (servant), and to the thachanah (supplication) of your im (nation / people) Yashar-Al (Israel), to shamai (hearken / hear) to them whenever they qaraa (called) to you.
53 For you badal (separated) them from among all the imay (peoples) of the aratz (Earth/land), to be your nachalah (inheritance), as you dabar (word / matter) by Mashah (Moses) your ibad (servant), when you yatzaa (go out / come out) our ab (father) out of Matzarayam (Egypt), Adanay () Yahawah ().”